Peter Hibbert
Hon. Professor Peter Hibbert
Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science, Australian Institute of Health Innovation
Phone: 0414 253 461
E-mail: peter.hibbert@mq.edu.au
Biography
B.App.Sc (Physio), Grad.Dip. Comp, Grad.Dip. Econ, FAAQHC
Honorary Professor Peter Hibbert leads the Patient Safety and Appropriateness of Care research stream at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation in Macquarie University. Professor Hibbert has a background as a physiotherapist, worked as a senior national policy healthcare executive in England’s NHS, and has strong expertise in researching quality and safety in healthcare, patient safety investigations, and implementation science.
He is Chief Investigator-A on a NHMRC Partnership Grant on patient safety with financial partners the NSW Clinical Excellence Commission, Safer Care Victoria, Clinical Excellence Queensland, and ACT Health. In addition, as CI, Hibbert has been awarded 5 MRFF, 1 NHMRC, 1 NHMRC-EU and 1 NIHR grants.
Professor Hibbert research program has made a highly influential contribution to international health policy and systems e.g., his patient safety work has been used and cited by WHO, OECD, and the World Bank. He is an author on the 2020 WHO publication: Patient Safety Incident Reporting and Learning Systems and the WHO International Classification for Patient Safety, for uptake by health systems worldwide. CI-D and sits on national committees and regularly provides reports and guidance for the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission, and the Australian Digital Health Agency.
He has advised governments and health services bodies internationally (e.g., WHO, EU, UK, NZ, Malaysia, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, Poland, Hong Kong) on patient safety. He is a Fellow and International Expert of the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua); teaches on Harvard University Medical School’s international Safety, Quality, Informatics and Leadership Program; and has run over 200 workshops on investigation methodologies to 5,000 clinicians, executives and managers in the last 7 years.
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Creating safe, effective systems of care: The translational challenge